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Ed Schultz: “We’ve never had a civilian stop a shooting”

Would it be a deterrent if, you know, say perpetrators know that there’s guns in the schools? How do we know they wouldn’t view that as a challenge? I mean, we got a goofy world out there. I’m just not convinced that packing a small firearm is the best defense or certainly not the best defense. You know, you want to make the best defense? Make the school a damn fortress. I mean, you could do that, I mean but, is that reasonable? Is that the right thing to do? Is it necessary? And so I’m just, is it nec-, haven’t we had enough school shootings where this is necessary? We’ve never had a civilian stop a shooting.

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What does one say when such a demonsterably STOOOOOOPID statement like Ed Shidts utters like this one?

I can’t help but think that A. he’s so sheltered in his Liberal cocoon, that real stories of civilians thwarting gun crimes never penetrate… or
B. he knows its true, but he knows he has to tell the big lie because his dugout will crucify him if he acknowledges the truth… Or

C. He’s just an EVIL lying phuctard batstage bent on the destruction of everything we hold dear and he knows he’s going to HELL, so why not take everyone else along?

Does this worm ever engage brain before opening mouth? I bet there are hundreds or maybe thousands of civilians stopping a shooting?
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letget on January 12, 2013 at 1:09 PM

You’re dead right. Go talk to small store owners in the inner cities. Many of them have to show their weapon to deter a crime. I just recently spoke with such a fellow in Columbus. He has had to do this on several occasions. Calling the police is often a waste of time. If no one is hurt or killed for the most part the police simply take a report.

I’ve noticed Ed doesn’t have a problem pheasant hunting here in SW ND, with GUNS.
I guess it’s OK for him to have guns bcs he just shoots pooor little helpless defenseless non-native birds that have been brought here by the Federal Government to encourage sportsmen to come here to use their bad evil guns.
Effing tool.

— Appalachian School of Law, 2002: Crazed immigrant shoots the dean and a professor, then begins shooting students; as he goes for more ammunition, two armed students point their guns at him, allowing a third to tackle him. Total dead: Three.

— Santee, Calif. 2001: Student begins shooting his classmates — as well as the “trained campus supervisor”; an off-duty cop who happened to be bringing his daughter to school that day points his gun at the shooter, holding him until more police arrive. Total dead: Two.

— Pearl High School, Mississippi, 1997: After shooting several people at his high school, student heads for the junior high school; assistant principal Joel Myrick retrieves a .45 pistol from his car and points it at the gunman’s head, ending the murder spree. Total dead: Two.

— Edinboro, Pa., 1998: A student shoots up a junior high school dance being held at a restaurant; restaurant owner pulls out his shotgun and stops the gunman. Total dead: One.

He knows it is a lie, but his viewers will believe him. We laugh and say he only has a few viewers, but the truth is, he has thousands. Those people latch onto and believe his every word. Then they in turn spew it to their friends and post it all over their Facebook pages. I know some of these people, they can’t think for themselves. None of them fact check, but believe what they want to believe if it supports their argument.

Since all of the mass shootings of recent decades except for the Gabby Giffords one occurred in gun-free zones, he should have more accurately said: No law-abiding gun carrying citizen has ever stopped a mass shooting (defined as a shooting that killed enough people to be counted because it wasn’t stopped) by illegally having a firearm in the gun free zone.

ROFL. This is how the left works. All the good arguments on the right the left simple says it never happened or they put false stories out then point to those stories as fact. It is exactly what they did in their quest to destory Palin. They are doing it now with guns. The left is placing all kinds of false stories saying hitler never disarmed the population do a goggle on hitler gun control and see what the left is up too. Then in a couple days they will point to those false stories and say see Hitler never disamred the population in fact my guess will be they will say hitler really armed the population and it was because of an armed population that hitler came to power. And if you don’t think it works simple look at the number of those on the right who think the stuff about Palin is true.

Maybe designating some areas “gun-free zones” is the real problem. If a would-be perpetrator did not know where the resistance is coming from or from whom, the brazenness and numbers of these mass attacks could be negligible and the damage much less.

Bank on this, Eddy-boy: if some black-clad men with guns marching toward the front doors of your studio, a civilian wouldn’t stop the shooting, because you lot will be unarmed and none of us who isn’t a cop or soldier will feel like keeping you from earning a Darwin Award.